Wednesday’s recap: Iona slips late in St. Ray’s rematch

Basketball doesn’t return full tilt until Thursday, but there were three games today.

Iona Prep hosted its rematch with St. Ray’s after beating the Ravens in their gym last month. This time, the Gaels led throughout before squandering a nine-point lead in the fourth quarter despite some scorching hot shooting from sophomore Matt Ryan.

Iona has now squandered leads of 16, 15 and nine points in the fourth quarter of its last three games, although it did rebound to beat New Rochelle in overtime in one of those. The young Gaels will get there, but they’re still learning how to close out wins.

Here are tonight’s recaps:

St. Raymond 76, Iona Prep 71: At Iona Prep, Matt Ryan had 27 points for the Gaels, who led by nine points with 5:56 to play. Tom Capuano had five assists. Brandon Williams had 10 points, five rebounds and three steals.

JOSH THOMSON joined The Journal News and LoHud.com in March 2003 and has covered high school football, basketball, baseball and pro and college sports ever since. He graduated in 1998 from Carmel High School and in 2002 from Boston University with a degree in communications. Josh spends the majority of his free time with his wife and two daughters.

Sure I can talk about how iona has won 9 out of the last 14 games against stepinac. If u like I could talk about how Iona has won 20 of the last 25 football games against stepinac. Care to talk about the football spanking this year.

Want to talk about losing to Stepinac on your home floor less than 2 weeks ago? How about blowing 15 point lead to a section1 middle tier team in Somers? Talk about that? Case and point you live way way way back in the past.. 20 of 25 football games? Serious? That dates back to 1988? The 9 out 14 basketball references your man crush Voelkel AGAIN!!! Lets talk about last…or last week Somers..or 2 weeks ago at iona perp STEPINAC…

step fan. what is your problem? i really hope you are not a current student or alum of stepinac?
principal father tom collins and athletic director mike o’donnell would not be very proud of you, believe me!
do you really want to deny history and base your absurd on what happened this past week?

Father Collins and Mike OD can’t stand you history buffs..see you at Stepinac in 2 weeks..lets see what you want to talk about after that game. You Iona nuts should be coming up with a plan on how you will reimburse the paying fans who only got 3 Quarters of basketball out of your team last night. And last week..